perl-ldap - A Client interface to LDAP servers
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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This code should be considered very much as work-in-progress.
Any part of this release could be subject to change.
The development of the distribution is discussed on a mailing list at
perl-ldap@perl.org
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For the latest information see http://ldap.perl.org/
QUICK START GUIDE:
perl-ldap uses the following modules/distributions.
MIME::Base64 - required, core module since Perl 5.7.3
Convert::ASN1 - required
IO::Socket::SSL - optional, for LDAPS / start_tls support
IO::Socket::INET6 - optional, for IPv6 support
Authen::SASL - optional, for SASL authentication
Digest::MD5 - optional, for SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism
GSSAPI - optional, for SASL GSSAPI mechanism
URI::ldap - optional, for URL parsing
XML::SAX::Writer - optional, for Net::LDAP::DSML
Time::Local - optional, for Net::LDAP::Util's time conversion functions
First ensure the above modules/distributions are installed then
build/test/install Net::LDAP by doing
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Several modules in the distribution contain documentation. Once installed
you can use the 'perldoc Net::LDAP' command to obtain the documentation.
This documentation will contain pointers to the other modules.
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NOTE: Everything that has been deprecated will be removed when V1.00 is
released, but who knows when that will be.
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